Clarifying the use of ruxolitinib in patients with myelofibrosis

ONCOLOGY (United States)

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Kremyanskaya, Marina ^a   Atallah, Ehab L ^b   Hoffman, Ronald ^a   Mascarenhas, John O ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; ALPHA INTERFERON; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DANAZOL; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90 INHIBITOR; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 6; JANUS KINASE 1; JANUS KINASE 2; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN INHIBITOR; PLACEBO; RUXOLITINIB; THALIDOMIDE; THROMBOPOIETIN RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANEMIA; CANCER PATIENT; CYTOKINE STORM; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG USE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; JAK2 GENE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYELOFIBROSIS; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POINT MUTATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SKIN BRUISING; SPLEEN SIZE; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84880293714     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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